Details
ENGLISH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
A country house and parkland, possibly Lime Grove, Bangor, Wales
pencil and watercolour heightened with gum arabic on paper
1918 x 2678 in. (48.6 x 68 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Philips, London, 11 November 1997, lot 12.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of British Watercolours 1750-1940, cat. 75, 16 November - 3 December 1999, no. 28.
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Lot Essay

The house in the present drawing bears a resemblance to one depicted in a early watercolour by J.M.W. Turner, Mansion with Wooded Grounds, now at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard (W.328), which Susan Morris has identified as depicting Lime Grove, Bangor, the home of Lord Penrhyn's agent Benjamin Wyatt (1744-1818). A pencil sketch of the house, by Turner, is at Tate Britain (Turner Bequest XLVI 17a).

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